Name: Conversations With Friends
Price: 230.00 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Author: Sally Rooney
ISBN: 9780571333134

Type

Physical Book

Author

Sally Rooney

Publisher

Faber And Faber

Year

2018

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780571333134

Conversations With Friends

Sally Rooney (Author) · Faber And Faber · Paperback

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Synopsis "Conversations With Friends "

'This book. This book. I read it in one day. I hear I'm not alone.' - Sarah Jessica Parker (Instagram) WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES / PFD YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2018 A SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Frances is twenty-one years old, cool-headed and observant. A student in Dublin and an aspiring writer, at night she performs spoken word with her best friend Bobbi, who used to be her girlfriend. When they are interviewed and then befriended by Melissa, a well-known journalist who is married to Nick, an actor, they enter a world of beautiful houses, raucous dinner parties and holidays in Provence, beginning a complex menage-a-quatre. But when Frances and Nick get unexpectedly closer, the sharply witty and emotion-averse Frances is forced to honestly confront her own vulnerabilities for the first time.

Sally Rooney

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Sally Rooney is an Irish writer born in 1991, known for her precise style and sharp exploration of human relationships, youth, and emotional dynamics. Her work is mainly framed in the genre of contemporary fiction and psychological realism. Rooney gained great notoriety with her debut Conversations with Friends (2017), a novel that addresses the complexities of friendship and love.

Her second book, Normal People (2018), was even more successful, winning the Costa Book of the Year Award and being adapted into a successful television series. In 2021 she published Beautiful World, Where Are You, continuing with her introspective style and deep characters. Rooney has been acclaimed for her ability to capture the nature of modern relationships, making her one of the most important voices in contemporary literature.

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